Photos by bellatoris

The Rainbow Wall basking in the dawn's early light. Just one of the benefits of an alpine start. The two hour approach is enough to keep the wall free of crowds.

The book calls this pitch 11+. Not a chance; more like very fun 11b, and a lot easier than the 11d 3rd pitch.

The book calls this pitch 11+ and is solid at the grade. The beautiful start is liebacked up to some cool stems up higher. The crux is either strenuous liebacking with bad feet down low, or a stem and lieback sequence ten feet higher. Either way they are hard but fun.

This is a fun thin, delicate and reachy stemming crux. The moves are straight forward; good flexibily and footwork are key. Once the perfect finger corner is grasped its all over.